egypt is set for more protests from the opposition who threaten to storm the presidential palace. against the country's leader. earlier in the week similar scenes of chaos and violence could be seen on the streets of tunis here. a prominent opposition figure it out in. public unrest people blame isn't the government for the train the values of the arab spring uprising. protests and catcalls confront cia hopeful john brennan at a confirmation hearing. where the architect of the target assassination program could take america spied. on russia parents down to the twenty fourteen winter olympics games promised the most the most expensive in history the huge overspend already costing him his job.

egypt's supposition groups are gearing up for more mass rallies against president mercy some threatening to storm the presidential palace. demanding the polls the goals of the revolution that ousted hosni mubarak two years ago what's increasingly becoming a similar scenario in the gyptian quarter sort of the government to block the video sharing website you cheap in the country for a month citing content. true reports the decision is only likely to inflame tensions as the rest continues. there's been a lot of condemnation of the by protest movements who see you cheap as

a vital resource for disseminating information about human rights abuses by the security forces it's also an indication of an islam is ation of egypt has been a number of quite controversial statements made by these hardline muslim clerics in the last few weeks including a religious edict calling opposition forces to be killed and a muslim cleric speaking to. justifying sex mob attacks on egyptian protesters in tahrir square you have a very restive country here in egypt in the last few weeks especially since the second anniversary of the johnny one hundred five revolution when thousands gathered in the streets of egypt complaining that their president had mostly have not made key changes in demands of the revolution friday we saw more protests part of friday's day of security thousands of protesters gathered across the main rallying points in this in the country which devolved into clashes between anti-government protesters and security forces in the capital here by the presidential palace when groups talk to the building with molotov they were pushed

back by take us and water cannons and so bloody of violence in the in the governor with that same couple shake as well as violent clashes and. we have more protests on the horizon with further expected violence we don't see this finishing anytime soon. journalist and blogger while iskandar says many people in the country feel their freedoms are being cut back by president mercy on these are lies. what the muslim brotherhood right now is trying to do is restore autocratic rule and much like mubarak method of governing and i think the way the political actors see it is that mubarak was not ruthless enough and did not climb down on freedoms enough to sustain israel and this is what they're trying to remedy the you tube verdict comes in light of. you know many other decisions that clamp down on freedoms and it's no surprise that they will try to install the infrastructure necessary to clamp down on. various websites that they see as

a threat to their rule where we're going to see more waves of protests and we're going to see more violence because if you look at the situation in egypt the region did not die the symbols just changed we just have new people following the same rules. but he gypped wasn't the only arab spring country plunged into turmoil this week wave of violent protests have swept through tunisia following the assassination of a secular opposition leader dozens were injured and more than three hundred people detained during the run his which ended with anti-government demonstrators clashing with police. has been following the dramatic developments in the news in capital forty eight year old lawyer shockley ability to criticize the islam is to government for creating and really just state in tunisia and burying democracy now belied is dead but his ideas are not museum crees the country has been in crisis

economic political and social the ruling troika how to chone says it's been a year and a half but we didn't see any progress the death of all come right becomes the last straw. anger moved to the streets with protesters demanding the authorities and mabel to protect its citizens to leave the. city with. some crime because billowy was a symbol of dignity and a symbol of the defense of the country this is a political assassination and that means the violence is not over. yet the interior ministry said that one million in the have joined the ceremony that turned into a political manifestation people said that if the crowd reached the city center it would have been the last day of the government. as your attend the funeral of shockey belayed on friday after the seventy try to make their way to visit is made of and you have to continue to get an eye test if they were not alive to do that

police used tear gas immediately that day it is such a siege is packed with people with slogans we're hearing a completely different. carry an islamist flags people masterly in support of the ruling and not a party the local branch of the muslim brotherhood police were at the scene to protest in demonstrators this time this reverse gathering didn't pull more than five thousand participants but the government used this to illustrate that their position was still strong looking at the big man that proved that people support and believe our party. over but. they try to say face but don't have the choice they lost credibility and have no choice but to dissolve the government which is by de facto dissolved already. standing on the brink of a political crisis prime minister proposed to form a new cabinet consisting of neutral politicians his own party rejected the plan and

christenings idea of a possible further this plate and fears are growing that the political divisions may lead to even more victims always threaten to another guy from the opposition was attacked at the funerals i don't want to panic and say x.y.z. person but there is a list of people those who fight for the revolutions principles liberty democracy dignity we're all in danger do years ago tunisia became the first nation to have an arab spring revolution that has been hailed as a success story praised for the minimal violence and turmoil but as we watch the country face a political implosion it may be only now that this rain that has been wound up tightly it's been sprung for three days clashes between police and protesters shook the country leaving many injured and cars burnt out across the city but it all finished as quickly as it started just hours later the capital looks empty and come

and the loudest noise here at the moment is sound of birds twittering. easier. for maria still in here and she's keeping us up to date with the latest from there via her twitter feed in her most recent posts reports on the political crisis in the country saying the prime minister is still aiming to reshuffle the government despite defiance from his own party and he's promising to resign if the new cabinet is not approved. president obama's nominee to head the cia the architect of the controversial drone assassination program faced his senate confirmation hearing this week while the makers generally gave john brennan an easy ride so members of the public did not session was interrupted several times by protesters the driving force behind the so-called targeted killings operations human rights activists claim the use of drones against suspected terrorists at

american and foreign citizens is unlawful and leads to a high number of civilian casualties raf the chairman ordered the protesters to be removed the makers questioned the brennan on torture and cia shortcomings knocked into trenching on his own says scholar and author colin campbell says that given brennan's views his confirmation could get better troubling precedent. this is a complete our constitutional rights. do more and equal protection of the law and you know the administration is doing here is they're usurping the. united to the american citizen and so we can be just an executioner we can you know american citizens abroad without having their court we can say they are yours and we can kill them and the danger of this is when

you look at ministrations we can determine who was your then that means go anywhere. without any draft without any problems and that is a very. very and is now up for a closed door hearing to iron out sensitive technicalities but debate has already brewing about what direction he could take the cia as artie's going to chicken express. in the shadows no more drones are moving into the mainstream was drone makers in the u.s. military pushing to defend the killing machine drones are more properly titled remotely piloted vehicles allow us to do is to project capability without projecting vulnerability and their revolutionizing warfare by allowing us to see and kill from half a world away a major drone manufacturer lockheed martin has financed an hour long documentary on

drones aired recently on u.s. public television counting the technological capabilities of the killing machine from trailers like this pilots of the predator and its larger cousin the reaper have killed thousands of individuals since two thousand and one using remotely piloted aircraft contrary to popular belief actually provides the greatest degree of ethical oversight for their use and this young man in pakistan would probably disagree several of his family members died at the remote hands of a drone more than a thousand other civilians were reportedly killed by u.s. drone strikes in pakistan and yemen we find ourselves murdering people in many cases children with no evidence whatsoever that they're involved in any criminal or terrorist activity the numbers should not come as a surprise considering the broad definition the obama administration gives us to who should be on their kill list the leaked memo on targeted assassinations on the

u.s. justice department suggests the u.s. government can kill people even without evidence that they are actively plotting against america somebody a u.s. citizen or otherwise is believed to be thinking something that could lead to actions against the united states then this illogical logic would present the idea that it would be ok for the president to order that that person be killed despite the u.n. raising concerns about the legality of the use of drones the u.s. has said to expand its remote can. a war fare setting up new drone bases across the world has redefined war during intervention in libya he made the case that the war powers act in a private because there is no risk to american soldiers and so under that rationale he can expand the global war while in his state of the union address claiming that we don't need perpetual war for peace but it is perpetual war when you can drop bombs on any country and then claim that it's not working john brennan often

referred to as the architect of the administration's drone war counts the new opportunities for the us to wage wars without risking american lives there is another reason the targeted strikes can be a wise choice mr teacher consequences that inevitably come with the use of force. as we have seen deploying large armies abroad won't always be our best offense all in all the u.s. now has around ten thousand drones in its fleet not all of them carry weapons of course a lot of them are for surveillance both domestic and international there's a great push both from the administration and the drone makers to present them as america's next best thing john brennan if confirmed will soon be at the helm of the cia and no one doubts that under him the program will expand even further in washington i'm going to step down. under pressure for planning a highly expensive attack against those who criticize the media. take a look at what some say the. principles of european parliament.

looks to expand its citizens' internet activity and mobile phone use. could be crucial for national security and more after a short break. on technology innovation. developments from around russia. no longer represent. the people are going to take.

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welcome back now this week saw days of strikes in spain as tens of thousands of teachers and students are voiced their anger of education cuts the government seems unmoved by the crowds and says it's committed to belt tightening measures as it struggles to dig the country out of its debt hole a message from the people of spain was echoed on the streets of arland. thousands united in a massive show of anger against severe austerity measures and tough cuts were implemented to please our his creditors he's been relying on a joint e.u. international monetary fund since twenty ten. and very angry crowds have been

spoiling the mood of e.u. leaders as they celebrate and historic budget deal cutting the block spending for the first time ever it was sealed after hours of debates and bickering described by some as a bizarre with a deal left the european parliament unimpressed its m.p.'s now planning to block it in a secret vote economist james medway weighs in. constitutionally the well within their rights to reject the thing and send it back and have another go at writing this now whether they actually do that will probably depend on the fine print in the budget or already present you politick to said he would be able to support the steel and the heads of one of the major groups in the parliament the socialist group said there are likely to be supported so it can be a rocky ride i think this budget over the next few months cameron's right talk about this being like a reduction in a credit card limits and of course you can have your credit card limit reduced and still spend carry on spending more money now that's almost certainly what's going

to happen to britain over the next few years the amounts that britain is expected to pay into the main e.u. fund will increase as a result of increased payments to new member countries so he's going to pretend that this will show how britain can still be a force in europe how we can push the rest of europe around this glosses over the fact of course that he wouldn't have got anywhere in this without the support of angle of merkel in particular so he can even try to push that line that you know he knows what he's doing to europe and that we don't need to go so far as to step out of the european union but i wouldn't see the more euro skeptic members of his own party being particularly impressed by any of this. some other world headlines in brief for you now in the u.s. the los angeles police department says it will reopen the investigation into the dismissal of a police officer is known or rather suspected of murder officials will look into the fugitive allegations of racism and corruption among his colleagues use of a dollar was fired in two thousand and one. is now wanted for allegedly killing

three people after posting a manifesto on noise saying he has forty targets on his hitlist. suspected militants have killed five soldiers and wounded one in a roadside attack in thailand car bomb was detonated as a truck carrying the troops drove by attackers and opened fire on the soldiers security forces are frequently ambushed in the restive south where attacks have claimed more than five thousand lives since two thousand and four. iran's president mahmoud ahmadinejad has said that talks to the u.s. on the country's nuclear ambitions are still possible and stressed washington would have to stop pointing a gun at tehran comes after a statement from iran's supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei he said the program was non-negotiable today marks the thirty fourth anniversary of the islamic revolution celebrations planned across the country. where web privacy

u.k. could be compromised if the government pushes on with its plans to spy on citizens online the document described as a snoopers charter would allow for it is to track people's internet activity in mobile phone use come to explain that the bill was crucial for national security but a draft proposal has sparked fears among britons some believe monitoring of personal data is a step too far jim of the open rights group thinks there will be no place beyond the reach of the state. snoopers charter is a bill that would allow. the government to collect data about everybody on mine and data mining that data so it's not just about the guilty it is not just about records being kept is not just about serious people serious criminals who need to be tracked is about the potential of anybody in law enforcement to get hold of any

information about anybody just about anything that you do would be detectable through the information trails you leave we need the home office of publish detailed proposals so that we can see whether they're in a way workable what the damage would be and have a proper serious debate about those proposals well are people right to think of these proposed laws as a serious invasion of privacy and go to our website and have your say on what you think would happen if the government manages to push the so-called snoopers charter through what looked like a distant olympic dream for russians has now become a very close reality the countdown has kicked off across the country marking one year before russia hosts its first ever winter games celebrations and praise for the unique facilities built from scratch hand in hand with harsh criticism over spending and missed deadlines what is under from reports now from sochi.

fireworks lit up the sochi sky this week marking exactly a year to go before the winter games begin since two thousand and seven piece by piece the city has been putting its elim picturing together in the company in charge of construction says russia will be ready and. we plan to introduce all the facilities before the games start training facilities are ready practically all of them of host to test competitions all hotels and limpid villages are in the final phase of construction being referred to and furnished the show jewels to open in the autumn we plan to complete construction long before the end of the year said personnel can train a managers can gain experience in providing a good service however such a vast undertaking has not been without its problems presentation was in the region this week to check on progress and was taking no prisoners the ski jumping center the only venue not yet up and running and it sparked this exchange with russian

olympic officials are the costs of this whole facility costing what's the overall. initially we were assessing the amount of. what's a rough estimate. this initial price one point two billion now it's a. one point two billion has turned into a billion yes well done good work let's move on. it resulted in the sacking of a key member of russia's alan thicke committee fifty billion dollars the sochi games will be the most expensive in nearly history they have cost ten times more than the last winter games in vancouver and ten billion dollars more than the ferry she knew somebody gains however the results can already be seen and they are impressive if you do take a quick look around you can see what money can buy at the center of the olympic park which has six venues all within a stone's throw of each other to host the curling the skating and the ice hockey and this is the. in the crime the bolshoi i studied.

the past arena was used for a spectacular skating show i was part of the countdown celebrations and in a year's time it will face the and in the ice hockey final in d.c. me so tropical like ation the slogan for thought she twenty fourteen is hot cool your top because the limbic park is them by their backs in case their i'm cold because all the alpine events or take place in just forty kilometers away. progress is rapid that there was a poor resort has sprung up from nowhere to become the home of alpine skiing by athlone in cross country courses have also been created along with the bob sleigh track and a road and rail in the last spectators to get from the mountains to the coast in just a few minutes sochi itself has undergone massive upheaval as kilometers of road am rail lines are put in place and new hotels are they ought but the mayor believes

the region will reap the benefits for years to come. our residents are aware of the conditions they have to face during changes especially. we certainly have many inconveniences because there's not a single street in sochi without renovation going on the roads are regularly dug up which causes traffic jams all the time however the residents are aware that it's necessary for their future brilliant future. then has been overhauled in just six years but the transformation easel most complete and the black sea resort believes it can and will deliver the games to remember this time next year andrew farmer. soft chief well he then pick spirited anticipation also reached new york this week u.n. chief ban ki moon joined the celebrations at the organizations headquarters just to remind those action that was amongst you who want to see the sort of games in person tickets are already on sale and available online.

well coming up though we take an in-depth look at the occupy movement in the us itself the break here. secretary of state hillary clinton recently testified to congress in regards to the attack on the u.s. consulate was killed an american ambassador in benghazi libya during the testimony couldn't rather calmly said things like that the revolutions that sprang up during

the arab spring like in libya the events in bali have created instability and safe havens for terrorists and she made it clear that there is no doubt that the algerian terrorists had weapons from libya so the us secretary has basically admitted that the actions of the usa and nato have caused a mass instability that has allowed the seeds of terrorism to grow when the justification for most of the actions in the muslim world is to stop evil dictators who harbor terrorists or spread chatting to mock recy if libya would have been left alone algerian terrorists wouldn't be getting any weapons from it now this is like an exterminator accidently or maybe on purpose actually feeding the roaches in your basements that there are ten times more of them and then saying that he has to keep working because he's the only one who can get rid of the roaches people like hillary clinton who support funding brutal jihad it's rebel groups to overthrow governments to somehow bring about stability and democracy are either dismally stupid or.